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Inside Britain's 'post-industrial wasteland' with 'no hope' but plenty of 'crackheads'
A British city has been dubbed a 'post-industrial wasteland' where there is 'no hope', with locals noting that there is 'nothing to do' except for meet 'crackheads and smackheads'
“Half the shops were boarded up and most of the people I spoke to seemed pretty miserable.”
Those were the words of YouTuber Wendall as he took a stroll through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, a city he described as a “post-industrial wasteland”. Located between Birmingham and Manchester, Stoke was once the epicentre of the UK’s pottery trade but is now greatly diminished.
Wendall took a trip to the central England city, where he spoke to the locals about what life was like there, and generally, the response was negative. The city was described by one local as the “monkey dust capital.” That was referred to as a “synthetic drug”, which Wendall noted was similar to spice.
As he walked he filmed people who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. One person was slumped against a wall, leaning at an unsettling angle. Another man, with wide eyes, let out a strange maniacal yelp in response to the YouTuber's presence.
From there he took a stroll around town, heading down to the centre. “The shopping precinct of a city of 250,000 people in the conurbation, a quarter of a million people – but look how dead it is, just a handful of people walking around the town square,” he said.
“There’s nothing about Stoke,” one woman working in a food van said. “It’s crap mate,” added her colleague. “Unless you want to meet some smackheads and crackheads, you’ll be alright,” the first woman noted”.
After a few hours of walking about Hanley - the city centre - Wendall noted: “The Reginald Mitchell, the Wetherspoons, is probably the best thing in town. It’s actually quite a nice Wetherspoons, palm trees outside. But that says a lot about Hanley."
Wendall was unimpressed but did get some interesting chat out of the locals. At one point he spoke to a couple of lads who branded Stoke "w***", and also got chatting with a bloke who appeared to be drunk and said he loved the pubs.
At one stage in the video, titled Stoke, The City With NO HOPE: Broken Britain, he got chatting with a charismatic bearded bloke called Joseph sipping on a Pepsi. He said he didn’t go to the pubs because the £4 pints were “too dear,” and noted that “there’s nothing to do around here.”
Daily Star Sunday
A British city has been dubbed a 'post-industrial wasteland' where there is 'no hope', with locals noting that there is 'nothing to do' except for meet 'crackheads and smackheads'
“Half the shops were boarded up and most of the people I spoke to seemed pretty miserable.”
Those were the words of YouTuber Wendall as he took a stroll through the streets of Stoke-on-Trent, a city he described as a “post-industrial wasteland”. Located between Birmingham and Manchester, Stoke was once the epicentre of the UK’s pottery trade but is now greatly diminished.
Wendall took a trip to the central England city, where he spoke to the locals about what life was like there, and generally, the response was negative. The city was described by one local as the “monkey dust capital.” That was referred to as a “synthetic drug”, which Wendall noted was similar to spice.
As he walked he filmed people who appeared to be under the influence of drugs. One person was slumped against a wall, leaning at an unsettling angle. Another man, with wide eyes, let out a strange maniacal yelp in response to the YouTuber's presence.
From there he took a stroll around town, heading down to the centre. “The shopping precinct of a city of 250,000 people in the conurbation, a quarter of a million people – but look how dead it is, just a handful of people walking around the town square,” he said.
“There’s nothing about Stoke,” one woman working in a food van said. “It’s crap mate,” added her colleague. “Unless you want to meet some smackheads and crackheads, you’ll be alright,” the first woman noted”.
After a few hours of walking about Hanley - the city centre - Wendall noted: “The Reginald Mitchell, the Wetherspoons, is probably the best thing in town. It’s actually quite a nice Wetherspoons, palm trees outside. But that says a lot about Hanley."
Wendall was unimpressed but did get some interesting chat out of the locals. At one point he spoke to a couple of lads who branded Stoke "w***", and also got chatting with a bloke who appeared to be drunk and said he loved the pubs.
At one stage in the video, titled Stoke, The City With NO HOPE: Broken Britain, he got chatting with a charismatic bearded bloke called Joseph sipping on a Pepsi. He said he didn’t go to the pubs because the £4 pints were “too dear,” and noted that “there’s nothing to do around here.”
Daily Star Sunday